Internet Security and Privacy News:

• Apple launches digital textbooks
  
• At CES, Ballmer highlights Windows phone, Windows 8, Xbox Kinect
  
• Help Fix Google Privacy Campaign: Submit Your Comments
  

  The FTC is seeking public comment on its proposed Agreement with Google regarding Google Buzz, and EPIC wants your voice to be heard! Use the form below to help build your comments. EPIC will send your comments and information to the FTC and use them to help us write our own comprehensive recommendations to the FTC.

  
  
• Justice Department to Monitor Polls in 18 States on Election Day
  

  On Election Day, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division will deploy more than 400 federal observers to monitor polls in 18 states. Staff at the Civil Rights Division will be available to take complaints regarding problems with voters accessing the polls throughout Election Day at 1-800-253-3931 (TTY line 1-877-277-8971). Complaints may also be filed on line at the Department's website. For more information regarding the Civil Rights Division's role in protecting voting rights, see http://www.justice.gov/crt/voting/.

  
  
• Vuln: Pligg CMS 'status' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability
  Pligg CMS 'status' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability
  
• Vuln: OpenSSL TLS Server Extension Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
  OpenSSL TLS Server Extension Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
  
• Data breach? Blame your third party's remote access systems
  

  An in-depth study of data-breach problems last year where hackers infiltrated 312 businesses to grab gobs of mainly customer payment-card information found the primary way they got in was through third-party vendor remote-access applications or VPN for systems maintenance.

  
  
• Anonymous claims to have released source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere
  

  Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site.

  Symantec could not immediately comment on whether the hackers had indeed released the source code of its product. "It happened so recently that we're still in the process of analyzing and won't be able to confirm until the morning," a spokesman said via email.

  
  

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